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"In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living." — Karen Armstrong
"Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that." — Susannah McCorkle
"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence." — George Byron
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." — Miguel de Cervantes
"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive." — Arnold Palmer
"The Amen of nature is always a flower." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Love is being stupid together." — Paul Valery
"The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you." — Dean Norris
"Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him." — Jamie Campbell Bower
"I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere." — Vincent Gallo
"I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with." — Freida Pinto
"Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs." — Jeff Bridges
"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission." — Theodore Bikel
"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others." — Peace Pilgrim
"Wonder is the basis of worship." — Thomas Carlyle
"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way." — Victoria Beckham
"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice." — Jacques Barzun
"Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living." — Ethel Merman
"Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game." — Vladimir Kramnik
"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility." — Vaclav Havel
"I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin." — Zoe Saldana
"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome." — Plautus
"I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do." — Katy Perry
"My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs." — Philip Levine
"As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?" — Ellen Page
"We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another." — Estelle Morris
"Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun." — Nicolaus Copernicus
"Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries." — Doug Coupland
"Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore." — Liev Schreiber
"We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space." — Nick Lampson
"I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me." — Youssou N'Dour
"I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God." — Jimmy Carter
"I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation." — Jayson Blair
"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things." — Ken Kesey
"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years." — David Ogilvy
"I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society." — George Soros
"My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce." — Sophie Ellis Bextor
"Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful." — Rashida Jones
"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion." — John Comenius
"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me." — Bertrand Russell
"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics." — Herb Ritts
"You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education." — Robert Vaughn
"I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing." — David Byrne
"I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame." — Gerry Beckley
"I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that." — David Duchovny
"Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them." — Allen Tate
"Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives." — Andy Rooney
"I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to." — Jackie Mason
"No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change." — Barbara de Angelis
"Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off." — Bryan Ferry
"Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing." — Lee DeWyze
"Faith which does not doubt is dead faith." — Miguel de Unamuno
"When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!" — David Starr Jordan
"To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success." — Hugh Jackman
"My family is awesome." — Miranda Lambert
"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm." — Mahatma Gandhi
"I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing." — Jack Nicholson
"The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change." — Simon Mainwaring
"In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything." — Richard Stallman
"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest." — Paul Cezanne
"Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over." — B. J. Novak
"I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed." — Jesse Ventura
"Tennis and golf are best played, not watched." — Roger Kahn
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." — Richard Bach
"It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible." — Lucien Bouchard
"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music." — Wynton Marsalis
"A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him." — Mae West
"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited." — Napoleon Hill
"Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go." — Jack Kilby
"Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities." — Aung San Suu Kyi
"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community." — Kofi Annan
"You can't test courage cautiously." — Annie Dillard
"I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past." — Mario Lemieux
"I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own." — Ne-Yo
"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls." — James Russell Lowell
"All great truths begin as blasphemies." — George Bernard Shaw
"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive." — Thomas Sowell
"We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right." — Malcolm Turnbull
"Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form." — Sinclair Lewis
"In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations." — Jeff Bridges
"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer." — Peter Ustinov
"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions." — Plutarch
"Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me." — Selena Gomez
"Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence." — William Falconer
"Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse." — Doris Lessing
"Quit worrying about your health. It will go away." — Robert Orben
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." — Thomas Jefferson
"War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support." — Colin Powell
"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things." — Flora Lewis
"I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums." — Christina Aguilera
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten." — Rudyard Kipling
"If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters." — Robin Wright Penn
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves." — Robert Collier
"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing." — Rod Stewart
"Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted." — Richard Russo
"We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise." — Freddie Mercury
"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food." — Joseph Butler
"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art." — Andy Warhol
"There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second." — Jeff Bezos
"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple." — John Ruskin
"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure." — Anne Baxter
"Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors." — Bill Forsyth
"I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is." — Steven Hatfill
"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else." — John Keats
"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life." — Paul Cezanne
"My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations." — Della Reese
"I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period." — Bobby Flay
"Experience teaches only the teachable." — Aldous Huxley
"Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network." — Wolfgang Puck
"I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay." — Bob Dylan
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time." — Leonardo da Vinci
"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle." — Stanley Kubrick
"One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed." — Dustin Hoffman
"I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken." — Herman Cain
"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained." — Joseph Roux
"Life is a game. Money is how we keep score." — Ted Turner
"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self." — Ted Hughes
"My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent." — Robert Carlyle
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods." — Plato
"And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited." — Betty Hill
"My mom was tough." — Tiger Woods
"Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth." — Larry Merchant
"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt." — Walter Scott
"No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." — John Jay
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good." — Charles Caleb Colton
"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost." — Maya Lin
"You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms." — Marissa Mayer
"Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong." — Mira Nair
"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror." — Sigmund Freud
"The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none." — Charles Dickens
"I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground." — Dominic West
"Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society." — Sebastian Junger
"Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?" — Mason Cooley
"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't." — Margaret Thatcher
"No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be." — Lindsey Graham
"Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health." — James Thomson
"The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade." — David E. Price
"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher." — William Glasser
"Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money." — Brandon Boyd
"I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing." — Ritchie Blackmore
"I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!" — Samuel Smiles
"Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience." — Mitt Romney
"South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out." — Ice Cube
"You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success." — Joe Nichols
"Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true." — Samuel Johnson
"For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship." — Fergie
"On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years." — Judith Krantz
"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing." — Doug Coupland
"To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first." — Janeane Garofalo
"I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world." — Norm MacDonald
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." — Albert Einstein
"The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff." — Rush Limbaugh
"Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick." — Miguel Angel Ruiz
"Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men." — Rush Limbaugh
"Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong." — Maurice Sendak
"Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side." — Sam Shepard
"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear." — Sophocles
"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash." — Rita Mae Brown
"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions." — Gregory Bateson
"If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country." — Adnan Pachachi
"I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here." — Simon Cowell
"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war." — Gerry Adams
"In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk." — Rita Rudner
"I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad." — Ricky Skaggs
"Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination." — Charlie Simpson
"Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it." — Ric Keller
"Humble souls are fearful of their own strength." — William Gurnall
"This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life." — Corey Hart
"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process." — Sai Baba
"It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all." — William Makepeace Thackeray
"I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government." — Doris Lessing
"He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger." — Salvatore Quasimodo
"Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesn't take any brains to complain." — Robert A. Cook
"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts." — Hun Sen
"The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'" — Neale Donald Walsch
"Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind." — Jacob Bronowski
"I don't believe in fad diets." — Jenny Craig
"The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it." — Johnny Depp
"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express." — Francis Bacon
"We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear." — King Hussein
"When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil." — Ray Comfort
"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich." — P. J. O'Rourke
"But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics." — Jane Campion
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue." — David Hume
"What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet." — James Hansen
"A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in." — H. L. Mencken
"What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice the laws are still on the books." — Christopher Isherwood
"If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!" — Kevin Spacey
"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes." — Cathy McMorris
"I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist." — Todd Rokita
"There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work." — Kiefer Sutherland
"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts." — Tom Stoppard
"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure." — Doug Coupland
"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable." — Aldous Huxley
"Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground." — Pope Paul VI
"I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them." — Danny Boyle
"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may." — Daniel Webster
"Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end." — Helen Hayes
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." — Lin Yutang
"It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods." — Martin Scorsese
"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi." — Larry Wall
"In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band." — Neal Schon
"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours." — Grover Cleveland
"My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication." — Tony Goldwyn
"For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week." — John Sununu
"There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school." — Tom Vilsack
"Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged." — Felicity Huffman
"I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men." — Danny Glover
"Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat." — Ron Paul
"My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends." — Steve Nash
"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity." — Lyndon B. Johnson
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." — Harry S. Truman
"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere." — Mel Gibson
"We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children." — Patricia Sun
"I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back." — Steve Jobs
"My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family." — P. J. O'Rourke
"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be." — Anne Frank
"A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration." — William Lyon Phelps
"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night." — Marie Corelli
"When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'" — Pauline Neville-Jones
"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence." — Alan Rickman
"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding." — Edward Abbey
"All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other." — Albert Brooks
"'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it." — Lord Byron
"There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage." — Alexander Theroux
"I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use." — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
"I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me." — Harriet Tubman
"There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives." — Hamlin Garland
"I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go." — Lee Trevino
"I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday." — Jesse Plemons
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are." — George Eliot
"The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich." — Fran Tarkenton
"Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration." — Jane Mayer
"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence." — Booker T. Washington
"No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else." — Katharine Graham
"If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too." — Gwen Stefani
"There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society." — Jacqueline Bisset
"My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ." — John Woolman
"You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge." — Judith Light
"In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money." — Carter G. Woodson
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination." — Voltaire
"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition." — Nancy Pelosi
"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." — Rita Mae Brown
"There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top." — Shia LaBeouf
"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value." — Charles Dudley Warner
"We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children." — Howard Zinn
"'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre." — Julia Roberts
"People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work." — Tahar Ben Jelloun
"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England." — Stephen Gardiner
"Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers." — Hesiod
"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one." — Herbert Spencer
"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." — Rita Rudner
"It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging." — Jonathan Davis
"Love is metaphysical gravity." — R. Buckminster Fuller
"President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation." — Eliot Spitzer
"Music fathoms the sky." — Charles Baudelaire
"My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time." — Chelsea Clinton
"Hope is the denial of reality." — Margaret Weis
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." — George S. Patton
"The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion." — Ulrich Beck
"How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!" — James Payn
"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already." — Georg C. Lichtenberg
"Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information." — Roger Wicker
"Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted." — Barbara Bush
"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny." — Norman Cousins
"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know." — T. S. Eliot
"My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up." — Emeril Lagasse
"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts." — William Gibson
"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web." — Alan Dean Foster
"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise." — John Henry Newman
"I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot and that was how I dealt with it." — Amanda Hocking
"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." — Jane Austen
"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." — Arthur C. Clarke
"No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'." — Julie Burchill
"I have a very vivid imagination." — Janice Dickinson
"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association." — Johnny Weissmuller
"I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead." — Laura Kightlinger
"Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven." — Confucius
"When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?" — Lisa Loeb
"It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I've been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It's just 'cause we're all named Emma. None of us look alike." — Emma Roberts
"House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?" — Bill Pascrell
"A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in." — Shirley Manson
"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." — Pope John XXIII
"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised." — Sting
"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived." — Willa Cather
"I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever." — Tim Allen
"I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them." — Ricky Schroder
"I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?" — Siobhan Fahey
"Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one." — Walter Jon Williams
"The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country." — Tim McGraw
"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context." — Rowan D. Williams
"I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions." — Devon Sawa
"Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration." — Elizabeth Gilbert
"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value." — Louis L'Amour
"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." — Konrad Lorenz
"Human beings are much bigger than just making money." — Muhammad Yunus
"I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'" — George Clooney
"A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art." — Louis Nizer
"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?" — Gloria Steinem
"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good." — Thomas Sowell
"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides." — Lao Tzu
"What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect." — Yoko Ono
"There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it." — Clint Eastwood
"People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience." — Carol Moseley Braun
"I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?" — Loretta Young
"What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God." — Rick Warren
"Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received." — Alexander Payne
"I wake up every day with a smile on my face." — Henry Ian Cusick
"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas." — James M. Baldwin
"Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle." — Bobby Hull
"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation." — Victor Hugo
"The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'" — Daniel Craig
"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion." — Robert Frost
"If there is no God, everything is permitted." — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Either war is obsolete, or men are." — R. Buckminster Fuller
"We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television." — Gerald McRaney
"God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress." — Kelly Clarkson
"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good." — Barbra Streisand